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The CALLA Model Strategies for ELL Student
Success
- Anna Uhl Chamot
- Jill Robbins
- Second Language Learning Consultants
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PURPOSE OF CALLA
- Focus on learner.
- Improve academic language proficiency.
- Motivate with content topics.
- Teach learning strategies.
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THE COGNITIVE ACADEMIC LANGUAGE LEARNING APPROACH
(CALLA)
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AUTHENTIC CONTENT
- Aligned to curriculum standards.
- Interesting school and cultural topics.
- Linked to students prior experiential and
cultural knowledge. - Taught through hands-on/inquiry-based/cooperative
learning tasks.
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ACADEMIC LANGUAGE
- Language development through content across all
curriculum areas. - Vocabulary and discourse of content subjects and
cultural topics. - Linked to students prior linguistic knowledge.
- Development of language awareness.
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LEARNING STRATEGIES
- Thoughts and actions that assist learning tasks.
- Ways to understand, remember, and recall
information. - Ways to practice skills efficiently.
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CALLA Sites
Lowell, MA McAllen, TX Mesa, AZ New York, NY
Ogden, UT Philadelphia, PA Washington, DC
Alief, TX Allentown, PA Arlington, VA Bethel,
AK Boston, MA
Fargo, ND Federal Way, WA Houston, TX
Chula Vista, CA Dearborn, MI El Paso, TX
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What are your own learning strategies?
- Think of a new skill or process you learned in
the past month. - How did you learn it? Describe the process to a
partner. - Identify one or two learning strategies you used
to learn or remember the new skill.
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CALLA INSTRUCTIONAL SEQUENCE
- Five Recursive Phases
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PREPARATION
EXPANSION
CALLAS FIVE PHASES
PRESENTATION
SELF-EVALUATION
PRACTICE
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PREPARATION
- Identify objectives.
- Elicit students prior knowledge.
- Develop vocabulary.
- Provide motivation.
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PRESENTATION
- Present new information in varied ways.
- Model processes explicitly..
- Explain learning strategies.
- Discuss connections to students prior knowledge.
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PRACTICE
- Use hands-on/inquiry-based activities.
- Provide different cooperative learning
structures. - Use authentic content tasks.
- Ask students to use learning strategies.
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SELF-EVALUATION
- Students reflect on their own learning.
- Students evaluate themselves.
- Students assess their own strategy use.
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EXPANSION
- Students apply information to own lives.
- Students make connections between language and
content. - Students relate information to first language
knowledge. - Parents contribute to learning.
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Guide for planning a CALLA Instructional Sequence
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Research Findings
- The learning process is mentally active and
strategic. - Learning involves higher level thinking, not just
memory. - Social context and interaction are critical.
- Students learn content by relating it to their
prior knowledge. - Students learn processes through integrative
practice individually and with peers. - Learning strategies can be taught and learned.
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WHY TEACH LEARNING STRATEGIES?
- Show students how to be better learners.
- Build students self-efficacy.
- Increase student motivation for learning
- Help students become reflective and critical
thinkers.
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TIPS ON TEACHING LEARNING STRATEGIES
- Build on students current learning strategies.
- Demonstrate how to use the learning strategy by
modeling. - Give the strategy a name.
- Provide ample practice opportunities.
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Metacognitive Strategies
- Planning
- Understand the task
- Organize materials
- Find resources
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Metacognitive Strategies
- Monitoring
- While working on a task
- Check your progress on the task.
- Check your comprehension as you use the language.
Do you understand? If not, what is the problem? - Check your production as you use the language.
Are you making sense? If not, what is the problem?
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Social Learning Strategies
- Cooperation work with others to
- complete tasks
- build confidence
- give and receive feedback
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Metacognitive Strategies
- Evaluation after completing a task
- Assess how well you have accomplished the
learning task. - Assess how well you have used learning
strategies.
- Decide how effective the strategies were.
- Identify changes you will make the next time you
have a similar task to do.
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Metacognitive Strategies
- Self-Management Manage Your Own Learning
- Determine how you learn best.
- Arrange conditions that help you learn.
- Seek opportunities for practice.
- Focus your attention on the task.
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CALLA Instruction Is...
- Learner-centered
- Reflective
- Supportive
- Focused
- Enthusiastic
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